well i welcome you watching the weekly here on our take with me andrew farmer. it has been that for my take few days for this u.s. city of boston to terror a blast struck at its landmark marathon on monday killing three including a child and injuring more than one hundred the attack was followed by an intense manhunt for two suspects through the city suburbs eventually saw one of the alleged bombers killed and the other wounded and taken into custody artie's anasazi talking to looks back at the bitter events. mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finish line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong that they sent debris flying on tops ripping off people's limbs leaving three people dead and over a hundred and seventy five people injured despite all of the money the united

states spends on security it was a surveillance camera of a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims of the three people who died including an eight year old boy two young women a twenty nine and twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the true brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older

brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand and eleven to try to establish any possible links to extremists groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after the bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again tried to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their. fighting killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officer said that the two brothers were throwing explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in

the car ended up running only for his older brother getting a win the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to marilyn and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty am on friday morning and unprecedented manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty eight hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers we're currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just cars whereabouts where they ended up with finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry docked boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw a blood trail and led police to the area where jeff car was hiding now

a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature technology to locate joe hart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note. a two hour standoff and shootout between police and joe hart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest or higher was taken to. the same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after a week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief but locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been

living under mr martin massachusetts well moscow warned american authorities back in twenty levon that one of the brothers could pose a threat so his alleged due to his alleged radical views and asked him to be investigated and f.b.i. lead probe was launched but find no sign of any dangerous activity according to the u.s. agency the parents of the suspected bombers claim s. sons could have been set up by american security services r.t. went to the north caucuses city where the brothers family lives to find out more on their background. that middle and sad naive and amateur boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won

a college scholarship and yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombing their father was the first step to claim his two boys were set up i'm confident of my children's innocence and i'm not sure what have taught them only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i think my children may have been frightened their mothers to be duds shared her biggest suspicion telling r.c. that her family was under constant aff be ice or valence raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorists and not how nobody talked about the terrorism my son pounded on me or what they got involved in bitterly you know. i really do believe that. years ago he was called by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew what my son was doing

they knew what action and what. we were going to how could it happen how could they they were conjoined we. never ever got this is not my two sons are in front of the as b. i confirmed that in two thousand and eleven agents investigating terminal on the didn't find any terrorist activity domestic of forming ethnically chechens that sat night family first moved from kyrgyzstan to the sound republican russia's north caucasus the brothers stayed there for only a short while before moving to the united states ass right. in two thousand and two this is the house where the brothers' parents live but now there is no one here it's not a nice family i voicing any contact with the media as they try to cope with their grief. neighbors here are in deep shock at the news and just believe that any of this happening to the top ny family i know the brothers very well from the

childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was the neighbor then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us studied the works that they didn't have any links with the hobbyists and other militants there are very few records a lot from their stay in dagestan the youngest brother jihad on his plate have the social network went back to mansion and this school number one in the high school in mali those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that saddam lives brothers. the family came to darkest on in september two thousand and one with the boys from the old style school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dark and stone they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new law an annual mission is indeed a three decades in the u.s.

so hard became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brothers seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and wish they'd spent the most significant part of their lives i do not question the artsy reporting from brushes that is done republic it is alarming that extremist ideas are being rooted in the minds of bright young people around the world showing that terrorism has no borders that's what paid to have says from the eurasia democracy in this shooting. should the north caucasus link in this case be proven it tells us that global jihad the move to global jihadi movement really knows no geographic economic or social boundaries. into the hearts and minds of young people such as what we saw in september eleventh attacks and what is being said now about these two brothers whether they were linked or not these

these two young men were quite bright they got scholarships to attend prestigious universities and still have that is proving we have been brainwashed into committing such heinous crimes. on top of the tragedy in boston this week also saw the u.s. hit with one of its worst industrial disasters in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens still missing an explosion at a texas fertilizer plant was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake and could be heard more than one hundred kilometers away the resulting explosion wiped out entire neighborhoods of the city and of west entire blocks of houses and apartments were mangled by the blast wave as well as a nearby retirement home and the school in the immediate aftermath noxious noxious fumes hung heavy over the area while fires could be seeing burning for miles around

a spokesman for the texas department of public safety described what he witnessed. i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area search some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there on for days on the flames on yet there are still reports the chemical tanks at the plant and not leaking top scenes and sparking small fine as the air is also being quarantined with locals really while rescue is still missing people that the dead break is also a message that there may have been serious safety at the plant house encouraged by decades of negligence by inspector is geoffrey pattison is a professor at the school of medicine it was university he thinks that lack sped to regulation federal regulation is to blight. there's been this montreaux that we

have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations if there is a mother to push a lurcher noble that whirl of the cleanup to be in much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. there are also strong phase i.v. toxins released by the explosion the plant both stored and makes dozens of

compounds including gases and volatile chemicals those could spread over the area and crave to be major hazards and chemist professor christopher busby says that there is even more behind this blast and hundreds of monia on its own would not be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there it seems much more likely to me that like the other mono not great plant explosions in history particularly the one in one hundred twenty one in germany and there was one of the sort in texas a nine hundred forty seven is somehow the ammonium nitrate so the first two laws of material that was produced by this wrong to explode it i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia on harder simonyi ammonia tank exploding although probably that would have exploded when the main explosion took place but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected three irritant and it would cause lots of serious upper respiratory

tract problems but then of course it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonia nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and not discuss it and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes or anybody inhaling them eyewitness accounts stories from those injured and expert comments are all available at r.t. dot com and there you can also watch more video of the aftermath of the blast and find out what the danger is now. and coming up if you as photos are being counted following iraq's supposed occupation election that was plagued by violence we explore the deep divisions running across the country caused by ethnic differences and claims to its vast oil reserves that is just ahead.

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that again hugo chavez is handpicked successor is not officially at the head of the world's most oil rich nation having being inaugurated as the president of venezuela but the going was far from smooth for nicholas majority with seven protesters killed in clashes with police this week thousands of supposes of opposition candidates only cake a pretty less took to the streets around the country demanding a total vote recount police and national guard units responded with take gas and plastic bullets the country's top electoral body did finally great pasha awarded the complete as calling off more planned protests dr william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california so. as there may be an ongoing effort to destabilize the situation. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington and on the top of the owner not

a new tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right to let in america which aligns with washington the idea is you had an all out to start was in this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for properties and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this election which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case them to do the job is with little governments around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is the at least of this is an incredible the focus is on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive for all because mexico is a close ally of the united states is the u.s. immediately look recognizes the results only lose the joy just by the opposition

with this for their own sense of no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections. despite agreeing to a partial vote recount the electorate body in venezuela says me today slim victory is irreversible and the president himself has sworn to continue the revolution begun by chavez and to address his country men small and medium concerns well for more on what challenges nicholas meijer right now faces his last and scholar dr joseph s. from harvard university. got in schley sion running at thirty percent he's got important problems he's got a whole basket full of economic problems and the price of oil has just gone down a few dollars which doesn't make it easy for the government the problem from my view you know in the short term the next month or two or three in addition to the. anomic difficulties is that his own end is split and he's got some hardliners

with him who want to close down the space for freedom of expression close the justice system close the t.v. and so on which will make venezuela totally isolated in the western hemisphere. bahrain's controversial formula one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperately trying to draw attention to human rights abuses in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been venting their anger saying the monarchy is using the events of paper over the crackdown on progress this bahrain's protest movement has been accusing the government of violating freedom of speech by release opposition leader in a be a hijab is the most prominent figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just for tweeting against the rulers. reports nine of his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower

julian a saunders so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking us on why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people it has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers or it's predominantly all the population of earth. sincere interest of a number of activists in the brain screen. tend to present brains are right for the most prominent voice for the brain spirit speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have

a few who believes. you want to go. to difficulties and you know. it too. that you are fighting for it's been good for hundred years is not an easy thing to change to achieve those changes you have to be willing to pay a price. that price might be your life fun to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government it's a cartoonish form of despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets from the russian to your personal stories to the prime minister . as well as organizing protests he even when he was

imprisoned briefly released he did not resign to the same standard criticizing you for it's hard for the people with that much coverage you can't. you can't be cowed and so i think is long term prospects accord good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. over fifty percent of eligible iraqi voters have turned to cost their ballots in the first provincial elections since the us troops withdrawal the vote was marred by violence with bombs and mortar shells exploding there several polling stations injuring four people the election capped several weeks of turbulent campaigning

with over a dozen candidates assassinated have several fires and running for office in various regions provinces bespoken the vote altogether citing a lack of security but many results are expected within so. days need elected authorities will have to deal with a country facing deep divisions along sectarian and ethnic lines driven even deeper in testing claims to his foster oil reserves coffin of reports they call them those who face death gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours

a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraq the soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga go to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is clear kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them. it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia arabs and kurds it's disputed because. but of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also

enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the internet. national energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how boyle has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of their bill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here in the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two lucy catherine of r.t. reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. just coming up to help us not here in moscow after the break r.t. what take a look at the booming gold rush happening in colombia. well

. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. ok going. right no way things are going the republic of texas better off than the state of texas texas has got its own like. it's got all the hall and gas and everything in. it's got all that and. everything you can survive but the rest the united states

would say durst. not survive without the miners. striving for bread and an independent future. the republican texas analyse. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota be independent expert coolio hero denounces and insist race relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. knowing. it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists

a very strong link between these companies and the political elites that we have look at they serve the interests of the big multinationals. marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions a vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the m.d.c. is tenured all covered by requests from mining concessions well you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated where are we going to grow the economy and people's food is going to get what's going to happen to our regions so this is a completely. irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining the andes gold. the largest reserves lie in the heart of the cordillera mountains where the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over.